The Visits of the "Lady in Blue": An Episode in the History of the South Plains, 1629

Saints, Witches and Go-betweens: The Depiction of Women in Missionary Accounts from the Northern Frontier of New Spain

“…The Memorial was warmly received by the king as well as the Spanish court and literate members of not only Spanish but European society in general. At the request of Pope Urban VIII, Benavides expanded or revised his Memorial (see Hickerson 1990;MacLean 2008;Reff 1994). Pérez de Ribas's history of the Jesuit missions of what is today northern Mexico appeared 11 years after the publication of Benavides's revised Memorial.…”